web design – Page 4 – Learning Journal

Adobe XD A Lesson In Simplicity

If you have been Adobe products for a little while now you are probably used to a certain set of tools and where to find them across almost all of their applications. Adobe XD pairs down tools to the basics and forces you to rely on your design skills instead of the advanced tools you are used to.

ADOBE XD

Is Adobe XD easy to use for the first time? This week we had to create an outline for our Mid-Term Projects. I was debating whether to use Adobe XD or Illustrator.

WHAT IS CSS?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets its a declarative language and its a great way to organize the content by changing the layout, adding color, and changing fonts.

update on HTML

In class we have been learning the basics of HTML and CSS of assembling it on Dreamweaver. The basic elements of creating the specific code we want as in <header> <p> <a href> <h1> <body> , etc to create and become familiar in the basics of setting up the code for a website. Also learning how to transfer files on an FTP I use FileZilla, to make our sites live has really been exciting. We are also setting up a portal page to link our projects for this semester.

here’s a little video I found that was interesting for typography

Typography: Here’s some things you need to know

Typography is such a critical element in all that we do… and yet, it’s such an overlooked thing in our day and age, when typography is being utilized more than ever. Here are some things you need to know to level up your typography skills and create better designs for the web.

Typography Guidelines For Website Usability

Typography is the detail and the presentation of a story. It represents the voice of an atmosphere, or historical setting of some kind. It can do a lot of things. (Cyrus Highsmith)

How do I do that? Image Optimization in Adobe Photoshop

Optimizing images for the web is an important part of building websites. Poorly optimized images means large files and longer loading times. Here’s how to optimize your image in Adobe Photoshop and insert those images into your HTML code.

So.Much.Code

These last 2 weeks have been filled with so much code! Between learning SASS, Parallax and Bootstrap, it is a lot to wrap your head around! *Whew*

Failure, Frustration, Acceptance the week 8 saga. . .

These last two weeks have been very challenging for me. While I am learning that there is so much variety in creating a webpage layout, making images and text go into specific boxes, or arrangements.

Mid-Term Week

Well this mid-term project threw me for a loop for sure. I was so happy to get some peer reviews that were helpful along the way.

CSS, FTP, FONTS

These couple of weeks we covered a bunch of themes. We discussed the major CSS principles, glanced over FTP clients and interactions with web servers, and, the fun part, discussed typography in general fonts in web design in particular.

Welcome to my first post of 2020!

Hello Class! I’m super excited to dive deeper into HTML and CSS with you all and I hope to get a better handle on web design. As much as it always intimidates me, I feel super rewarded when I get things rights and learn things that to me seem difficult to learn…

Why Code?

This past week really makes me look back and question whether I am a glutton for punishment.

Hey, Look What I Can Do!

These last few weeks, post-spring break, have been crazy… fun! It worries me a little because I’m wondering, “What the hell have I been doing the first half of the semester?”

Highs N’ Lows

This past week, I learned a few lessons that I’ve previously known about, but I have seem to have forgotten for the moment and needed reminding.

FTW! (For the Win!)

Last week we not only got presented our midterm microsite assignments, but we also tackled full size images and their responsiveness. Seeing websites out there big sized images and/or video, it seems that that is the direction of design people are looking for. Plus, it’s awesome!

Going Mobile

This last week I couldn’t attend class due to family events and Thursday we had no class. However, there was still a lot of learning to be had within the course files. I think this week the work made me go through all the emotions – fun, annoyed, and relief!

Web fonts and Typography

When I was learning Adobe’s applications in AAD70, I gradually discovered that I had fallen for fonts.

The Art of Typography

Combining fonts is really an unappreciated skill, unless you realize its not exactly the easiest design concepts to master.